EP0279340B1 - Power plant with combustion of a fuel in a fluidized bed - Google Patents

Power plant with combustion of a fuel in a fluidized bed Download PDF

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EP0279340B1
EP0279340B1 EP88101923A EP88101923A EP0279340B1 EP 0279340 B1 EP0279340 B1 EP 0279340B1 EP 88101923 A EP88101923 A EP 88101923A EP 88101923 A EP88101923 A EP 88101923A EP 0279340 B1 EP0279340 B1 EP 0279340B1
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Roine Brännström
Evert Lindblad
Leopold Malmkvist
Martin Mansson
Mats Thorén
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B02—CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING; PREPARATORY TREATMENT OF GRAIN FOR MILLING
    • B02C—CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING IN GENERAL; MILLING GRAIN
    • B02C2/00—Crushing or disintegrating by gyratory or cone crushers
    • B02C2/10—Crushing or disintegrating by gyratory or cone crushers concentrically moved; Bell crushers
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F22—STEAM GENERATION
    • F22B—METHODS OF STEAM GENERATION; STEAM BOILERS
    • F22B31/00—Modifications of boiler construction, or of tube systems, dependent on installation of combustion apparatus; Arrangements of dispositions of combustion apparatus
    • F22B31/0007—Modifications of boiler construction, or of tube systems, dependent on installation of combustion apparatus; Arrangements of dispositions of combustion apparatus with combustion in a fluidized bed
    • F22B31/0015—Modifications of boiler construction, or of tube systems, dependent on installation of combustion apparatus; Arrangements of dispositions of combustion apparatus with combustion in a fluidized bed for boilers of the water tube type
    • F22B31/0023—Modifications of boiler construction, or of tube systems, dependent on installation of combustion apparatus; Arrangements of dispositions of combustion apparatus with combustion in a fluidized bed for boilers of the water tube type with tubes in the bed
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23C—METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR COMBUSTION USING FLUID FUEL OR SOLID FUEL SUSPENDED IN  A CARRIER GAS OR AIR 
    • F23C10/00—Fluidised bed combustion apparatus
    • F23C10/16—Fluidised bed combustion apparatus specially adapted for operation at superatmospheric pressures, e.g. by the arrangement of the combustion chamber and its auxiliary systems inside a pressure vessel
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23C—METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR COMBUSTION USING FLUID FUEL OR SOLID FUEL SUSPENDED IN  A CARRIER GAS OR AIR 
    • F23C10/00—Fluidised bed combustion apparatus
    • F23C10/18—Details; Accessories

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  • the invention relates to a power plant with combustion of a fuel in a fluidized bed according to the precharacterising part of Claim 1.
  • a power plant is known from the EP-A-0 167 992.
  • Absorbent must be permanently supplied to the bed in dependence on the sulphur content in the fuel.
  • Bed material and ashes formed from the fuel or slag particles which do not accompany the combustion gases must be continuously or intermittently removed to prevent the bed level from rising.
  • Fine-grained material, as finer fractions of ashes and worn bed material, accompanying the combustion gases, are separated in a cleaning plant and transported away therefrom.
  • Bed material, ashes and slag have to be removed by being tapped off from the bed vessel through a controllable discharge device.
  • the EP-A-0 167 992 describes a power plant with a fluidizable bed in a combustion chamber.
  • the bed material also contains sulphur absorbing material.
  • This power plant is designed to burn moist coal.
  • the fuel is dried in a rotating channel that is supplied with hot combustion gases.
  • part of the bed material extracted from the bed vessel is crushed in a crusher and mixed with the moist fuel in said rotating channel.
  • the structural details of the crusher are not disclosed. Means for automatic control of the bed level are not provided.
  • the invention aims at developing a power plant of the above-mentioned kind with a discharge device which allows effective control of the bed level, permits efficient utilization of the sulphur absorbent and functions in a away that ensures a long life of the components of the discharge device.
  • the invention suggests a power plant according to the introductory part of Claim 1, which is characterized by the features of the characterizing part of Claim 1.
  • a supply tube for bed material in the upper part of the housing is connected to the outlet tube of the ash chamber and opens out above the plate, eccentrically in relation to the axis of rotation of the rotating grinding portion of the crusher.
  • the housing above the plate supported by the shaft, there are a number of stationary scrapers which distribute the bed material coming down through the outlet tube such that bed material falling down between the grinding portions of the crusher is evenly distributed along the periphery of the plate. This results in uniform wear around the stationary grinding portion.
  • the scrapers can be designed and arranged in different ways. They are suitably located at different levels above the plate and have an orientation which deviates from the radial direction, suitably arcuate or helical as the blades of the impeller of a centrifugal pump. Since the gap between the plate and scrapers are successively smaller in the direction of rotation, each one of the scrapers removes a material layer when the disk is rotating.
  • numeral 10 designates a pressure vessel enclosing a bed vessel 12 and a gas cleaning plant symbolized by one cyclone 14 only. In reality the cleaning plant usually consist of parallel-connected groups of series-connected cyclones.
  • the lower part of the bed vessel 12 includes an air distributor 16, which divides the bed vessel 12 into a combustion chamber 18 and an ash chamber 20.
  • the air distributor 16 consists of a number of elongated air distribution chambers 22 with air nozzles 24.
  • the chambers 22 communicate with the space 25 inside the pressure vessel 10 and outside the bed vessel 12. This space 25 contains combustion air under pressure. Between the space 25 and the chambers 22 there are arranged members (not shown) for control of the air supply.
  • the combustion chamber 18 is supplied with air for fluidizing the bed 26 of particulate material containing a sulphur absorbent and for combustion of a fuel which is supplied to the bed 26 from a fuel storage (not shown) through the fuel pipe 28.
  • Fresh bed material is supplied to the bed 26 from a bed material storage (not shown) via the pipe 30.
  • Above the bed surface 32 there is a freeboard 34 for collecting the combustion gases. From the freeboard 34 the combustion gases are passed via a pipe 36 to the cleaning plant 14 from where the cleaned gases are led via a pipe 38 to a turbine 40.
  • the turbine 40 drives a generator 41 and a compressor 42. Combustion air compressed in the compressor 42 is supplied to the space 25 via a pipe 44. Dust separated in the cleaning plant 14 is transported away to a collecting container (not shown) through a pipe 37.
  • the bed 26 contains tubes 46 for generating steam for driving a steam turbine (not shown) thereby simultaneously cooling the bed 26.
  • the material 50 in the ash chamber 20 consists of ashes, slag and consumed and unconsumed sulphur absorbent.
  • the ash chamber 20 comprises tubes 52 for cooling the material 50.
  • the coolant in these tubes 52 may, for example, consist of combustion air, steam or water.
  • the material 50 is removed from the ash chamber 20 via the outlet tube 54 and a crusher 56.
  • the tube 54 may comprise a valve 55.
  • the crusher 56 may be constructed in such a way that it only crushes slag lumps to a grain size of about 7-10 mm, whereas all other material having a grain size of about 3-6 mm pass freely. In this case slag is broken down so that the material fed out through the crusher 56 is given a maximum grain size appropriate for pneumatic transportation.
  • the pressure in the crusher 56 should in a PFBC power plant be approximately equal to the pressure in the bed vessel 12.
  • the outlet 58 of the crusher 56 is connected, either directly or via an ejector 60, to a pressure reducing discharge device 64 of the kind described in EP-A-0 108 505.
  • the ejector 60 may be provided with propellant gas directly from the space 25 or via a booster compressor, which on its suction side is connected to the space 25 in the pressure vessel 10.
  • the crusher 56 may be designed in such a way that it crushes both slag lumps and other fed-out bed material. Unconsumed absorbent in the interior of bed material particles is then exposed, and the crushed material is returned to the bed 26.
  • the outlet 58 of the crusher 56 is then connected to the combustion chamber 18 via the ejector 60 and the dash-lined return pipe 62.
  • differential pressure sensors 75,77 are provided, which are connected with one side via pipes 74,76 to points 70,72 on different levels in the bed vessel 12, and which are connected with their other side, via a common pipe 78, to a point 80 in the bed vessel 12 approximately on a level with the air distributor 16. In reality more than two differential pressure sensors are provided. These pressure sensors 70,72 are connected to a signal processing device 82 via pipes 84,86. A temperature sensor 88 in the bed 26 is also connected, via the pipe 90, to the signal processing device 82. A desired value, determined by the power level, is supplied to the signal processing device 82 from a power control equipment (not shown) via the pipe 92.
  • FIG. 2 shows a section of the vertical crusher 56 included in the invention.
  • the crusher 56 comprises a housing 110 with a stationary grinding portion 112 and a rotor 114 with a rotating grinding portion 116.
  • the housing 110 consists of a lower part 110a and an upper part 110b, which parts are formed with flanges 110c and 110d, respectively, and joined together by means of a bolted joint 118.
  • the material 50 has a relatively high temperature, up to 400°C, when leaving the ash chamber 20.
  • the parts of the crusher 56 are thus subjected to a high temperature, which must be taken into consideration when designing the crusher.
  • the stationary grinding portion 112 is constructed as a replaceable ring resting on a flange 120 in the lower part 110a of the housing 110 in such a way that it may expand radially.
  • the grinding portion 112 is retained by a resilient centering ring 122 with a flange 122a which is clamped between the flanges 110c and 110d.
  • the space between the stationary grinding portion 112 and the housing 110 is filled with heat insulating material 124.
  • the rotor 114 of the crusher 56 is journalled in an upper bearing 126 in a sleeve 128 which slides into the lower part 110a of the crusher housing 110, and in a lower bearing in the drive motor 106.
  • the upper bearing 126 is suitably positioned on a level with the grinding portions 112 and 116.
  • the rotor 114 comprises a shaft 130 which is connected at the bottom to the output shaft of the motor 106, to the suitably annular rotating grinding portion 116 supported by the shaft 130, and to the suitably plane plate 132 connected to the grinding portion 116.
  • the grinding portion 116, the shaft 130 and the plate 132 jointly form a space which is filled with a heat-insulating material 134.
  • the shaft 130 and the grinding portion 116 are joined together by a bolted joint 133.
  • the shaft 130 is internally water-cooled. Cooling water is introduced and discharged through a swivel 136.
  • the shaft 130 is provided with a bore 138.
  • the cooling water is introduced into a central tube 140 in the bore 138 so as to obtain satisfactory cooling of the upper part of the shaft 130 and of the bearing 126.
  • the cooling water is returned through the gap 142 between the wall of the bore 138 and the tube 140.
  • annular gap 144 Between the shaft 130 and the sleeve 128 there is formed an annular gap 144. At the lower part of the sleeve 128 there is a sealing device 147 between the sleeve 128 and the shaft 130.
  • the gap 144 is supplied with air or other gas, partly for cooling the sleeve 128 and partly for cleaning the space 148 between the rotating grinding portion 116 and the disk 152 which is joined to the sleeve 128 by a bolted joint 150.
  • the gas flows through the gap 144, the openings 154, the gap 156, the space 148, and the gap 158 to the collecting space 160 for crushed material.
  • the sleeve 128 is externally provided with heat insulating material 162.
  • the lower part 110a of the housing 110 is internally provided with a layer of abrasion-resistant, heat insulating material 164.
  • the upper part 110b of the crusher housing 110 is internally provided with a plate 168 which is joined by means of a bolted joint 170 to a flange 172. Insulating material 174 is provided in the space above the disk 168. Through the upper part 110b of the crusher housing 110 there passes an inlet tube 176.
  • the inlet tube 176 is joined to a flange on the outlet tube 54 by means of a flange 178 and a bolted joint.
  • the inlet tube 176 is located eccentrically in relation to the vertical axis C-C of the crusher 56.
  • the inlet tube 176 opens out at such a height above the plate 132 of the rotor 114 that the largest slag lumps, 40-60 mm, that may pass the gap 48 or rectangular openings between the chambers 22 of the air distributors, are able to pass between the orifice 180 and the plate 132.
  • the distance from the edge 182 of the plate 132 is so large that bed material falling down through the tube 176 does not of its own run over the edge 182 of the plate 132.
  • the disk 168 is provided on its lower side with a number of scrapers 184a-184g which have an orientation deviating from the radial direction.
  • the scrapers 184a-184g are suitably arcuate, as shown in Figure 3.
  • the scrapers 184a-184g have different vertical extensions so that between them and the plate 132 there are formed gaps 186a-186d of a successively diminishing height.
  • the gap 192 between the grinding portions 112 and 116 has such a size that the main part of the bed material having a size of about 3-6 mm is able to fall freely through the gap 192 into the space 160 without giving rise to wear.
  • the outlet 194 is connected to the outlet pipe 58.
  • the gap 192 has such a size as to obtain a fine-grained material with a large effective absorption surface of the unutilized absorbent.

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SE8700680A SE456600B (sv) 1987-02-19 1987-02-19 Kraftanleggning med forbrenning av ett brensle i en fluidiserad bedd
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FI87950C (fi) 1993-03-10
DE3869991D1 (de) 1992-05-21
FI880775A (fi) 1988-08-20
DK66288A (da) 1988-08-20
DK166042C (da) 1993-07-12
SE8700680L (sv) 1988-08-20
SE456600B (sv) 1988-10-17
JPS63209760A (ja) 1988-08-31
US4848276A (en) 1989-07-18
ES2031538T3 (es) 1992-12-16
DK66288D0 (da) 1988-02-09

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